MEYERSDALE, Pa. — State game commission officials are investigating the deaths of four deer that jumped from a new bridge in Western Pennsylvania.

The bucks fell to their deaths Tuesday night or early Wednesday from a bridge being built for the new section of Route 219 near Meyersdale.

Spokesman Anthony Scalia of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said the 50-foot-tall bridge is part of a four-lane highway being built between Somerset and Meyersdale.

Scalia said the animals may have been spooked by a car or an all-terrain vehicle, and when one jumped, so did the others.